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> give so much stuff for free

Interesting choice of words. Performance wise, sure. Money wise? I'm still waiting for a SQL database with pay-per-request pricing. The cost difference is enormous, particularly when you remember that you don't need to spend manpower managing the underlying hardware.

Engineering tradeoffs are more complicated than only considering raw scalability performance and "I can run it myself on a cheap Raspberry Pi".



>Interesting choice of words. Performance wise, sure. Money wise? I'm still waiting for a SQL database with pay-per-request pricing. The cost difference is enormous, particularly when you remember that you don't need to spend manpower managing the underlying hardware.

I assume you're saying DynamoDB is less expensive than SQL because of pay-per-request.

Working on applications with a modest amount of data (a few TB over a few years) pay per request has been incredibly expensive even with scaled provisioning. I would much rather have an SQL database and pay for the server/s. Then I could afford a few more developers!


Have you looked at Planetscale?


Who manages hardware these days? Aurora works quite well.




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